You’re being ridiculous. Your arguments of “NEB needs a fake penalty to squeak by MSU by 4″, “MSU lost by 1 stinking point to OSU, also on a horrible call by officials”, and “Hey NEB guy, 4 losses by 10 pts, wow that is really overinflated.” are laughable. What you are implying is that Michigan St is a good team and that they keep losing because of the officiating. My argument is that Michigan St isn’t good enough to say that the only reason they are losing games is because of the officiating. Maybe Michigan St players should worry about improving, so that they can win enough games to finally become bowl eligible this season, instead of talking trash on twitter about Denard Robinson (who beat Michigan St) and whining about the officials in the game vs Nebraska (who also beat them).

Also, your argument of “when they did the rankings way back when, MSU was the best team” is false. Just because your perception is that they were the best team, doesn’t mean that they were the best team. Michigan St’s flaws were obvious even then, and just because they hadn’t lost a game yet because of them, doesn’t mean that they didn’t exist. They did. That’s why I argued all the way back in week 1: “Michigan St looked entirely too 1-dimensional to be considered the #1 team of the conference, Maxwell was 22/38 (58%) passing for 248 yds, 0 TDs, and 3 INTs. Maxwell’s performance was so poor that MSU was forced to give the ball to Bell 50 times. The blueprint for B1G teams shutting this extremely 1-dimensional offense down is obvious: account for Bell,load up the box, and force Maxwell into incompletions and interceptions.”

Meanwhile, your argument all the way back in week 1: ” After today, MSU will remain at # 1 and NEB will be lucky to stay at # 5….”, and “Don’t expect Maxwell to fold. He’s a drop back passer unlike T-Mart and D-Rob and Miller. MSU is the best team and will prove it every week. MSU’s defense has yet to give up a TD and has only given up 2 FG’s all season, 1 of them on a turnover by the offense. MSU is the team to beat.”

Well, that “#1 team” is now 5-5, 2-4 in the conference. Yes, I woud say that your argument of Michigan St being the #1 team in the conference is the definition of an overinflated opinion.

Your argument of “Neb beat a Michigan team without their best player” is ridiculous on multiple levels. 1) While Robinson was in the game (almost the entire 1st half) Nebraska’s defense held Michigan to 6 points (2 field goals). It’s not like Robinson was torching Nebraska and when he went out, suddenly everything changed. Would the final score of the game have been closer than 23-9? Probably, but you can’t say that was the only reason Nebraska won. 2) You are saying that losing your best offensive player is such a detriment to a team, that Nebraska doesn’t deserve credit for beating Michigan. Well, if that’s the case, what does that say about Michigan St? Nebraska didn’t have their best offensive player, Rex Burkhead. Apparantly, that is such a detriment, that a team can’t overcome and win, but even with Burkhead out, Michigan St still lost.

Your arguements of “Hey NEB guy, 4 losses by 10 pts” and “and needed a couple horrible calls against a .500 MSU team to eek out a 4 point win” are just plain sad. A loss is a loss. It doesn’t matter if it is only by 1 point. It’s still a loss. That’s all that matters. I guess when your team is 5-5, 2-4 in the conference, it’s time to start searching for moral victories, because actual victories are so few and far between. A team that is #1 in the conference has no room for (or need for) moral victories. I guess I don’t understand the argument of “Your team beat us, but we are still better, because this team beat you by this much and you only beat this other team by this much.” I’m sure, though, that Michigan and Ohio St would be flattered that (due to Michigan St’s inability to beat Nebraska) you have chosen to live vicariously though them.

As I previously stated, there is now a plethora of evidence to illustrate just how ridiculous and overinflated the Spartan fan base’s opinion of their football team is, and how drastically it differs from reality. 5-5 overall, 2-4 in the Big Ten. A team with that record hasn’t earned the right to complain about the refs.